From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs dropbox conflict Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469542530 9387 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2016 14:15:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:15:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 26 16:15:30 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bS38q-0003nk-Ih for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:15:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS38p-0000lQ-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:15:27 -0400 X-Received: by 10.157.27.226 with SMTP id v31mr20462332otv.4.1469542460896; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:14:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.108.66 with SMTP id w63mr2359822itb.7.1469542460814; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f6no4824964ith.0!news-out.google.com!d68ni7151ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no4830695ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.201.198.167; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.201.198.167 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:14:20 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218619 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110930 Archived-At: I was working in emacs with a colleague: Different locations -- file shared by dropbox Now we can set the backup to go somewhere outside the Dropbox directory However emacs also seems to create another file -- a link .#filename that causes some conflict Can emcas be setup to not have that file be in the same directory as the file being worked on?